Category: Physical Therapy

How long does a stiff neck last?
If you’ve ever wondered, “How long does a stiff neck last?,” the answer may surprise you. Our team at Panther Physical Therapy knows the answer to this question depends on what’s causing your neck stiffness in the first place.

At Panther Physical Therapy, our team has gathered a wealth of physical therapy experience in the 16 years we’ve been in business. In fact, we’ve helped patients in Allison Park, Wexford and Harmony, Pennsylvania find high-quality physical therapy for many injuries and medical conditions. One reason patients keep coming back to see us is that we genuinely care about finding the best therapy for you. We’re always ready to listen to any questions or concerns you have about your therapy. We’ll even take the time to find out what goals you have for your physical therapy with us. This commitment to our patients has brought people back to see us for even seemingly minor questions such as how long a stiff neck might last.

How long your stiff neck lasts depends on why it’s stiff

Our Panther Physical Therapy team knows many people have experienced stiff necks. We also know you may have wondered how long your stiff neck might last.

The truth is your stiff neck could last for a few hours or it could last for weeks or months. The amount of time you must deal with a stiff neck depends on why your neck is stiff. Our team knows a stiff neck from sleeping poorly is typically on the low end of the time scale. This type of neck stiffness may only last for a few hours, and it’s usually gone by the next day at the latest.

However, we also know other causes may result in neck stiffness that lasts much longer. Overusing your neck muscles at work or in other daily tasks may cause stiffness that comes back every day. We also know poor posture from activities like using your cell phone may cause chronic neck stiffness. In addition, you may have been in a car accident or gotten a sports injury, and these may result in long-term neck stiffness. Any of these long-term neck stiffness causes may also lead to other issues such as pain and inflammation in your neck.

Our team may be able to help you relieve your neck stiffness no matter what has caused it. We may be able to do this by building you a personalized therapy program that may include therapies such as:
- Manual therapy
- Ultrasound treatments
- Targeted exercises and stretches
- Electrical stimulation therapy
- Ergonomic recommendations
A Panther Physical Therapy neck treatment plan that includes these and other therapies may have several benefits for you. One of the most important benefits it may have is relieving your neck stiffness before it leads to neck pain. We may even be able to help you treat the underlying causes of your neck stiffness, which may help prevent it in the future.

Are you ready to reduce how long your neck stiffness may last with therapy from Panther Physical Therapy? Contact our team today for more information or to schedule a free 15-minute screening.
February 5, 2019
Are you making these physical therapy mistakes?

Physical therapy is an excellent tool to help patients recover from injury and regain their quality of life. But when your progress slows and you don’t feel you are making the gains you should, you can become frustrated and discouraged. While every person heals at different rates and responds to physical therapy differently, it is possible that you may be making some physical therapy mistakes that are slowing your body’s recovery.

Skipping the at-home exercises

During your first appointment, the physical therapist will perform a thorough evaluation to diagnose the root cause of your pain and develop a treatment plan. This will usually include a set number of weekly visits and a routine of at-home exercises to complement the work you put in at the physical therapy office.

However, many patients will skip the at-home part of their treatment. They may believe they are putting in enough effort at the physical therapy office or that they don’t have enough time or energy to do the exercises. Skipping at-home exercise treatments is the most common reason patients are out of compliance and their recovery is slowed. Your at-home treatments are important, and you should do them even if no one is watching.

Staying silent

Communication is a key component of effective physical therapy. While your physical therapist is skilled in diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal disease, they are not mind readers. Some patients may want to get through their physical therapy sessions as quickly as possible and think gritting through a treatment that causes discomfort is the way to do it.

But if a treatment or exercise is causing you pain, speak up! The physical therapist can adjust your treatment plan based on your body’s needs. In addition, don’t be afraid to ask questions. There are no dumb questions and the physical therapist wants to help you understand your treatment. Staying silent and not communicating can hinder your recovery.

Physical therapy with Peak Performance

Not all physical therapy offices are the same. Peak Performance physical therapy has skilled therapists that can treat your pain symptoms. With several decades of combined experience, Peak Performance wants to help you regain your quality of life. Contact us today to set up your initial appointment today.

February 4, 2019
Who needs occupational therapy?
If you’re someone who has never heard of it before, you may be asking yourself, “Who needs occupational therapy?” Our Panther Physical therapy team knows the answer is simple. Any working person may have a need for occupational therapy at some point in their career.

Our team at Panther Physical Therapy has gained lots of experience from our 16 years in business. In fact, we’ve helped thousands of patients get the high-quality physical therapy they needed. The main way we ensure our patients are getting the services they require is with our personalized therapy plans. We’ll begin the process of building your personalized therapy plan by evaluating you to see how your condition or injury is affecting your body. We’ll then take a few minutes to sit down and talk to you about things like your concerns, questions and therapy goals. Finally, our team will build you a personalized therapy plan by using all of this information to choose the therapies that may be the most effective for you. Our personalized physical therapy plans are particularly helpful for workers who need occupational therapy.

Reasons workers may need occupational therapy

At Panther Physical Therapy, our team has helped many workers who needed occupational therapy. In fact, we know many types of workers may injure themselves in ways that may cause them to seek this service from us.

One type of worker our team often helps with occupational therapy is people who have physically demanding jobs. Some of the workers we’ve treated who fall into this category are painters, builders and supply chain workers. For instance, painters often experience overuse injuries to their shoulders. This is because they do much of their work with their hands over their heads. We also treat many injuries for workers who operate heavy machinery. Injuries we’ve helped these workers treat include ones such as bone fractures and joint problems.

Our team even knows that office-based workers aren’t immune from injuring themselves at work. In fact, we know an office workers’ chances of injury can be high if they have poor posture or they don’t get up and move often enough. For example, we’ve treated many office workers for carpal tunnel syndrome that resulted from improper typing posture. We’ve also helped office workers treat sciatica caused by poor sitting posture.

Our personalized therapy plans were able to help treat all of these types of workers. The reason they’re able to do this is we have many therapy methods we can include in your plan, such as:
- Joint mobilization
- Active release techniques
- Therapeutic exercises and stretches
- Thermotherapy
- Therapeutic ultrasound treatments
- Electrical stimulation therapy
- Dry needling
By combining these and other therapies into a personalized therapy program, our Panther Physical Therapy team may be able to help any worker who needs occupational therapy. If you think you may need occupational therapy, there’s only one step you need to take to get started.

Contact our team today for more information or to schedule a free 15-minute screening.
February 4, 2019
What is sports rehabilitation?
Sports players who’ve injured themselves may benefit from sports rehabilitation. However, they may also want to find out what sports rehabilitation is before they commit to it. Our team at Panther Physical Therapy can not only help you find out about sports rehabilitation, we can also help you discover how it may benefit you when you’re injured.

At Panther Physical Therapy, our team has been providing high-quality physical therapy to the residents of Wexford, Harmony and Allison Park, Pennsylvania since 2003. All our work with patients has taught us that personalized therapy is the way to go when you have a sports injury. To ensure your therapy is personalized to you, our team will first evaluate you to determine what type of injury you have. We’ll then spend some time finding out what your questions, concerns and therapy goals are, and we may even describe what sports rehabilitation is and how it may benefit you if you aren’t sure. Once we have this information and we’ve talked to you for a few minutes, our team will create a therapy plan for you that targets the specific issues your injury is causing.

What sports rehabilitation is and how it may benefit you

Our team knows you may not know what sports rehabilitation is if you’ve never been injured playing sports before. However, our team can help you learn about this service we offer, and we can also help you learn about the ways it may benefit you.

Our sports rehabilitation service is designed to help patients recover from many types of sports injuries. In many cases, we include strategies to help reduce your risk of future injuries in this service as well. Our team has used sports rehabilitation to help patients treat several types of sports injuries in the past. For instance, we’ve helped patients with ACL tears get back on the field. We’ve also helped patients recover from injuries such as patellofemoral syndrome, sprains and strains, and concussions.

However, our team knows what sports rehabilitation treats isn’t nearly as amazing as some of the benefits it may offer you. In fact, we may be able to help you get benefits from this service that include:
- Improving your range of motion
- Increasing stability in your joints
- Reducing the amount of pain you experience
- Shortening your recovery time
- Helping you find strategies that may prevent future injuries
These and other benefits may come from the personalized therapy plan our Panther Physical Therapy team builds for you. However, there is one step you’ll have to take to get all these potential benefits now that you understand what sports rehabilitation is.

Contact our team today for more information or to schedule a free 15-minute screening.
February 3, 2019
What does sports therapy treat?
One of the most common questions we’re asked at Continuum Wellness is, “What does sports therapy treat?” Fortunately, our team has the experience necessary to answer this question.

Our Continuum Wellness team has spent years providing the residents of Apache Junction, Arizona with high-quality physical therapy. During all of our years serving this community, we’ve learned that personalized therapy is the most effective way to treat injuries and medical conditions. This is why we’ll always take the time to find out what your questions and concerns are regarding your condition or injury and your therapy. We’ll also perform an initial evaluation to determine how your body is being affected by your issue. Having all of this information from the beginning allows our team to choose the therapies for your plan that help you heal as much and as quickly as possible. It’s this philosophy that allows us to create such effective sports therapy plans.

Some conditions sports therapy helps treat

Our team can tell you that sports therapy plans are designed to help athletes treat sports injuries. We can also tell you that there are many therapy methods that we typically use in sports therapy plans.

One therapy method our team frequently uses in sports injury treatment is strengthening exercises. Such exercises allow us to help you address muscle weaknesses and imbalances that may have caused your injury in the first place. For instance, you have a greater chance of injuring your rotator cuff if you have weak shoulder muscles.

Another therapy method we often use to treat sports injuries is electrical stimulation. This therapy method involves our team using a machine that generates low-power electrical pulses. To allow these pulses to enter your body, we’ll attach electrode pads to your body near the site of your injury. We find that electrical stimulation may be particularly helpful if you have a soft tissue injury such as a muscle strain or sprain.

Some of the other therapy methods our team regularly uses when treating sports injuries include heat and cold therapy and targeted stretching exercises. These therapies are by no means all of the ones at our disposal, but the goal of any therapy we include in your plan is the same. This goal is to promote healing and attempt to reduce your pain. Our sports therapy is often used to meet such goals for sports injuries such as:
- Hamstring strains
- Groin pulls
- Tennis or golf elbow
- Shoulder injuries
- ACL tears
- Concussions
- Patellofemoral syndrome
We hope that we’ve helped you better understand what sports therapy treats. Our team at Continuum Wellness also hopes that your improved understanding will help you manage your sports injury treatment. But, there’s one other vital piece of information we want you to know, which is that you should begin your therapy as soon as possible after your injury.

Contact our team today for more information or to schedule an initial appointment.
February 2, 2019
Physical therapy near me in Belle Chasse, LA
Physical therapy has been shown to effectively treat many injuries and medical conditions. Whether these aches and pains are from old sports injuries resurfacing or from new strains or muscle tears, a personalized physical therapy plan can help you find relief.

Our Rehab Access team offers physical therapy services that are second to none in the Belle Chasse area. We work with each patient to diagnose the cause of your chronic pain, and then we use that information coupled with your current lifestyle habits to create a custom physical therapy treatment plan. We will walk with you every step of the way to help you find the pain relief and strength you deserve.

One reason our physical therapy in Belle Chasse, LA is so effective

Our Rehab Access uses evidence-based physical therapy methods. Evidence-based therapies are ones that are backed by years of scientific research and clinical trials. This means that these therapies have proven to be helpful for treating specific injuries or medical conditions. So when we recommend a physical therapy treatment plan for you, we know that it’s been proven to work on patients with similar injuries.

We use evidence-based physical therapy treatments to help relieve the following types of pain:
- Neck pain
- Back pain
- Cervicogenic headaches
- Hand and wrist pain
- Vertigo
- Shoulder conditions
- Hip and knee injuries
- Foot and ankle pain
- Balance and gait conditions
- Sports injuries
Evidence-based therapies are the ones you want in your physical therapy plan because they may allow our team to more effectively treat your injury or medical condition. However, there’s one step you’ll need to take in order to get started with one of our therapy plans.

Contact our team today for more information or to schedule an initial consultation.
February 2, 2019
5 Ways Physical Therapy Can Put the Spring Back in Your Step!
Do you currently have an acute or chronic pain condition affecting your daily life? Maybe you’re struggling with back pain, a sports injury or impairments following an auto accident. Perhaps you have someone in your family who is experiencing pain and dysfunction. Whatever you or your loved ones are facing, we encourage you to contact our clinic to schedule an appointment with a physical therapist.

At Rehab Access, our physical therapists are experts in human movement and employ a wide range of drug-free, non-invasive techniques that benefit our patients in many ways — far beyond “just” symptom management. Check out these top five reasons why working with a physical therapist can help you reclaim the healthy, active lifestyle you want and deserve:

1. Pain-relieving techniques used in physical therapy have a low risk of side effects.

Unlike many medications and invasive procedures, physical therapy services have a very low risk of side effects while remaining highly effective for reducing pain, swelling, inflammation and other impairments related to injury, illness, and disease. Physical therapy techniques require less downtime and can be modified and safely used on everyone from infants to seniors.

2. Physical therapy services are completely customizable.

A standard physical therapy plan of care is completely individualized to the patient. The chief aims of any plan of care are to address the patient’s unique goals, resolve his or her impairments, and optimize his or her recovery, functional independence and long-term health. These outcomes can be achieved through physical therapy techniques such as:
- Therapeutic exercises
- Manual therapy, like massage and joint mobilizations
- Neuromuscular re-education, like balance training
- Modalities, like dry needling, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, diathermy, orthotics and prosthetics fitting, and kinesio taping
After undergoing a thorough examination with your physical therapist, you’ll receive an individualized treatment plan that can accelerate your healing. This plan is modified to meet your specific needs and lifestyle and relies on your feedback throughout the process, giving you a more active role in your recovery.

3. Physical therapy can help you avoid opioids.

The current opioid abuse epidemic in our country suggests that these potentially harmful drugs are frequently overprescribed. The CDC recommends physical therapy before opioids for the management of many types of chronic pain. Plus, treatment techniques used in physical therapy are “evidence-based,” meaning they are tested in scientific research studies in order to determine their efficacy, effectiveness and safety.

4. A physical therapist can identify hidden factors contributing to your dysfunction.

A physical therapist won’t just “mask” your pain. Our therapists identify and resolve underlying factors contributing to your current condition and increasing your risk of chronic issues. Common factors include shortened muscles, scar tissue, range-of-motion limitations, muscle activation problems, impaired ergonomics and body mechanics, and postural imbalances. If factors like these are left unaddressed, your symptom relief would likely be temporary at best.

Through services such as patient education, work-hardening programs and other techniques previously mentioned, a physical therapist can address both symptom and cause.

5. A physical therapist can help you maximize functional mobility, capacity and performance.

A physical therapist helps his or her patients improve endurance, core stability, coordination, agility, and other physical skills that can carry over into better performance in sports and everyday life. This is essential for young active people as well as the older population looking to avoid age-related debility.

In other words, our physical therapists can manage your injury or disease now as well as help prevent injury in the future.

Ready to find some long-lasting solutions to your pain? To schedule an appointment with a physical therapist today and get started on your journey back to health and healing, contact our physical therapy Belle Chasse & Gretna, LA clinic today.
January 20, 2019
What to do if your lower back hurts

Your back is a complex structure, so you may not know exactly what to do if your lower back hurts. However, there’s an experienced physical therapy team that may have some suggestions for you.

Our team at Panther Physical Therapy helps people in the northern Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburbs of Wexford, Allison Park and Harmony find the therapy they need. During our 15 years in business, we’ve helped people tackle many different kinds of pain. Our personalized plans use therapies that are effective specifically for your condition or injury. This means that we may be able to help you heal more completely and quickly than you ever thought possible. All of our therapy knowledge also allows us to offer you tips about what to do if your lower back hurts.

Two tips for what to do if your lower back hurts

Our team knows that it’s sometimes hard for you to know what to do if your lower back hurts. However, we’d like to offer you two tips that have helped us treat lower back pain for many of our patients.

The first tip that we often give to our patients with lower back pain is to switch the type of cardio you do. Our team has noticed that doing regular cardio exercise means that most people do some form of running. The issue with this form of cardio is that it’s very high impact, which means it may be causing your lower back pain. For this reason, we recommend that our patients switch to low-impact cardio exercises like treadmill walking. This is because we know that this type of cardio is easier on your body and may help your back to recover naturally.

A second tip that our team offers to lower back pain sufferers is to stretch your back. We know that there are many muscles that support your lower back. When these muscles are too tight, they can restrict your back mobility, pull your spine out of alignment and cause pain. Stretching these muscles is something our team recommends to help reduce your back muscle tension. We also recommend stretches because they may help reduce your pain at the same time they’re reducing your back muscle tension.

We offer you these two tips to help you with your back pain because they’re tips we suggest for our own patients. We even include the types of treatment our tips recommend in our personalized therapy plans for lower back pain. However, there are many other therapies and tips we can offer you that may help you figure out what to do if your lower back hurts.

Contact our team today for more information or to schedule an initial appointment.

January 19, 2019
Getting to the Root of the Problem! Don’t Mask the Symptoms With Meds
Chronic pain and other types of pain can put a dent in your lifestyle. If you’re suffering from pain, be sure to give our office a call to learn how our physical therapists can get you on the path to a pain-free life. Don’t make the mistake of relying on meds, as meds only mask the symptoms. Physical therapy is a natural treatment and a non-invasive treatment that works. Contact Panther Physical Therapy today and you won’t have to curl up with pain in bed anymore.

Using Meds for Pain: It’s Really Just Masking the Problem

Taking painkillers to rid yourself of pain may seem like a good solution, but it’s really not. Over-the-counter meds like aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen can have side effects. Taking a lot of aspirin can cause your stomach to bleed and can also cause kidney damage. Acetaminophen can result in kidney damage. Ibuprofen can cause both kidney and stomach problems. Prescription opioids like codeine, oxycodone and morphine can lead to addiction. Other possible side effects of pain meds include respiratory depression, constipation, anxiety and nausea. Not only does taking meds for pain just mask the problem, it may cause you another one.

The Natural Treatment of Physical Therapy

Sometimes even the thought of exercising may make you sweat but in reality, exercise is one of the absolute best treatments out there for chronic pain. By participating in a physical therapy routine you will see just how effective exercise can be for all types of chronic musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain.

Physical therapy is a natural treatment for a variety of root causes of chronic pain, including:
- Chronic headaches
- Fibromyalgia
- Osteoarthritis
- Neuropathic pain
- Disc degeneration disease
- Disc herniation
A physical therapist has a wide variety of treatment options to offer for pain. Movement therapy, massage therapy, cold laser therapy, microcurrent stimulation and the manipulation of joints and bones are just a few of the methodologies that physical therapists have in their toolbox. All of these treatment modalities help reduce pain, reduce inflammation, accelerate healing and improve daily function.

From Diagnosis to Treatment: The Role of a Physical Therapist

Consulting with a physical therapist can reduce your recovery time. That’s because a physical therapist will treat your entire body by identifying the root cause of pain. A physical therapist will perform an assessment to determine where your pain is coming from. This healthcare professional will develop an individualized treatment plan that is designed to target the root cause of pain. Physical therapists include a comprehensive exam process, which includes a full medical history. Selected tests are done to identify movement-related disorders. For a specific diagnosis, all of the collected exam data is carefully reviewed.

Physical therapy entails both active and passive treatment. Active physical therapy treatment may include exercises, motions, stretching and aquatic therapy. Passive therapy treatment may include ultrasound, massage therapy, heat therapy, cold therapy and electric stimulation. You can feel confident that a physical therapist will develop a treatment plan that is just for you and your needs.

If you’re in pain, there is an effective solution other than pain meds or surgery. Call our Harmony, Allison Park, and Wexford, PA office today to learn how our physical therapists can help you live a pain-free lifestyle. All of our physical therapists are seasoned and certified. Our goal is to get you back in the game, on the road to recovery and to help you live life to its fullest.
January 10, 2019
How to get rid of neck pain from sleeping wrong

It’s happened to many of us. You wake up from what you thought was a good night’s sleep, and you have a pain in your neck. If you’re dealing with this situation, Panther Physical Therapy has three tips for how to get rid of neck pain from sleeping wrong.

Advice and therapy for neck pain is just one of the things we do at Panther Physical Therapy. Our team has spent the past 15 years helping residents in the Pennsylvania towns of Harmony, Wexford and Allison Park get the physical therapy they need. During this time, we’ve helped our patients with a wide array of injuries and medical conditions. All this experience with our patients is what allows us to offer you three tips for how to get rid of neck pain from sleeping wrong.

Our three tips for how to get rid of neck pain from sleeping wrong

When you wake up with neck pain, your first thought is probably something like, “How do I get rid of this neck pain from sleeping wrong?!” Well, our Panther Physical Therapy team has three tips that may help.

Our first tip is to use hot and cold compresses on the painful area of your neck. Our team recommends that you use an ice pack on your neck first. This is because the cold from the ice may help to relieve inflammation in your neck that’s causing your pain. Then, we suggest that you switch over to a heating pad. The heat may help to sooth your neck muscles and release any lingering tension in them.

The second tip we have for you is to take some over-the-counter pain reliever. Our team knows that mild neck pain usually responds well to these pain relievers. We also know that using pain relievers in combination with hot and cold compresses may help to more quickly reduce your neck pain. However, we’d also caution you to be careful if you’re taking other medication besides the pain reliever. You may even want to consult your doctor to see if there might be any side effects from mixing a pain reliever with your daily medication.

Our third neck pain relief tip is to do some light range of motion exercises. One thing that we’ve found is that neck pain often causes people to hold their necks rigid. The problem with this is that it just puts more pressure on your already tense neck muscles, and this can lead to even more pain. Rather than holding your neck rigid, we recommend that you carefully move your neck through its normal range of motion. This movement may help stretch your neck muscles and reduce your pain. However, you’ll also want to keep your movements smooth and slow to avoid increased levels of pain.

Using these three tips, you may be able to reduce your neck pain on your own. However, if your neck pain continues to be a problem, you may want to consult a doctor or one of our physical therapists. This is because continued pain may be a sign that you have a more significant problem than sleeping wrong.

If you think you think you have a more serious neck problem, Panther Physical Therapy is here to help. Contact our team today for more information or to schedule a free 15-minute screening.

January 8, 2019
Auto accident doctor in Las Cruces, NM
After suffering an auto accident in Las Cruces, New Mexico, your mind can be in a million different places. Your own well-being and the well-being of any passengers probably will come first. Most likely, your auto accident doctor and physical therapist is much further down your list of priorities. Fortunately, Border Therapy Services in Las Cruces, New Mexico will work with you and your auto accident doctor to help set you on the road to recovery in the event of a collision.

Common auto accident injuries

The most common injury in auto accidents are head, neck and back problems related to whiplash. Whiplash occurs when the head is suddenly jerked forward and then backward. This motion places tremendous strain on the muscles in the neck. Common symptoms of whiplash include:
- Neck and back pain
- Neck stiffness and limited range of motion
- Headaches
- Tingling or numbness
- Weakness or instability in the neck
The force of the collision can also call discs in the spine to herniate, slip or rupture causing nerve pain down your back.

How physical therapy and your doctor can work together

Border Therapy Services in Las Cruces, New Mexico will coordinate treatment plans with your auto accident doctor. While your doctor can help by prescribing medicine for pain and diagnosing your condition, the physical therapist will work on the musculoskeletal system for your rehabilitation. You might also see a chiropractor who can perform manual adjustments to your neck and back.

It is vitally important that your treatment partners stay on the same page so that you receive the best care. Medicine the doctor prescribes can possibly limit the type and amount of physical rehabilitation that you can accomplish.

Scheduling auto accident treatment in Las Cruces, NM

Border Therapy Services employs a full-time billing team to help you navigate the red tape of auto claims insurance. They can answer questions about filing and benefits so that you can keep your mind focused on recovery.

If you have recently suffered an auto accident in the Las Cruces, New Mexico area, contact one of our friendly administrative staff today to schedule your initial appointment.
January 8, 2019
Elbow pain treatment in Wexford, PA

It can be hard to find effective elbow pain treatment in Wexford, Pennsylvania, and you may have been searching for help for a while. However, your search may be at an end thanks to a team of great physical therapists located near you.

Our team at Panther Physical Therapy is proud to serve the residents of Wexford, Pennsylvania. Ever since we opened our doors in 2003, our team has been committed to offering you the best possible physical therapy. Our treatments are all based on the idea that every person and condition is unique. This is why we always create a personalized therapy plan for you. One type of therapy plan that we’ll personalize to your needs is an elbow pain treatment plan in Wexford, Pennsylvania.

One therapy we may use in your personalized elbow pain treatment plan in Wexford, PA

One reason that our Panther Physical Therapy team is able to provide you with personalized elbow pain treatment in our Wexford, Pennsylvania office is that we have many therapies at our disposal. One therapy that we may include in your therapy plan is electrical stimulation.

Electrical stimulation is a therapy method that uses low-power electrical waves, and we use this therapy method because it may provide you with several benefits. When our team is using electrical stimulation on your elbow, we’ll go through several steps. First, we’ll attach electrode pads around your elbow to allow the electrical waves to enter your soft tissues. Then, we’ll attach wires from our electrical stimulation machine to the pads. Finally, our team will then turn the machine on to create the electrical waves that are so important to this treatment method.

By going through the process of electrical stimulation, our team may be able to help you achieve several benefits. For one thing, the electrical waves may help to block pain receptors in your elbow muscles. These waves may also encourage your body to produce more pain-relieving endorphins. Both of these actions may help to relieve your elbow pain. Our electrical stimulation treatments may also provide you with other benefits. For instance, they may help reduce elbow muscle tension. These treatments may also increase blood flow to your elbow and promote healing.

Electrical stimulation is just one of the therapies that we may use in your elbow therapy plan. However, the benefits of this therapy method pale in comparison to getting started with your therapy when you first feel elbow pain.

Are you ready to start your elbow pain treatment in Wexford, Pennsylvania? Contact our team today for more information or to schedule a free 15-minute screening.

January 3, 2019